IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 317585 accession number: C.13-2024 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 19 August 2024 updated: Tuesday 10 December 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Parian porcelain, slip cast, with applied hand-modelled green tinted plant, and flowers, decorated in blue, pale green, yellow, orange, pink, and pale purple, and gold. The figures are supported on a wide oval base with a rounded rocky edge, a small heap of rocks and a plant on the viewer's left end of it, and behind the figures, serving as a support, the lower part of a palm tree. Paul stands on the viewer's left holding his hat filled with polychrome flowers in his right arm. His left rests on the shoulder of Virginie standing beside him holding up her skirt in which there is a pineapple. He wears an open-necked shirt, a short jacket, a sash and breeches. His shirt and sash are patterned with small coloured motifs, and the edges of his garments and hat are edged with gold and red or blue lines. Virginie wears a white short-sleeved dress over a patterned petticoat, and a sash. The dress has a pink bow at the neckline, which is edged with gold. Both figures have bare feet. The underside of the base is open, with a wide flange round the edge, and a small ventilation hole below the palm stump. object type: Parian porcelain, slip cast, with applied hand-modelled details, sparcely painted in polychrome, and gilded. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Jay Antiques, from whom purchased for £1000 at the Stafford Fair in 1999 by John Edward Trice, MA, LLM (1941-2022); bequeathed by him LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by John Edward Trice, 2022 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/317585 PEOPLE ------------------- Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de TECHNIQUES ---------- slip casting CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain category: Parian (porcelain) DATING ------ creation date: 1865 - 1865 creation date earliest: 1865 creation date latest: 1865 culture: 19th Century, third quarter culture: Victoria CREATORS -------- maker: Royal Worcester Company DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 36.6 CITATIONS -------- The Parian Phenomenon, A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary and Busts Royal Worcester Porcelain from 1862 to the Present Day ---